Shooting is approaching

I was writing a text here for Novaya Gazeta about the political results of 2008. And she wrote that in 2008, the vertical of power will eliminate crime.

“We hasten to clarify,” I wrote, “that, as was definitively proven in the course of police experiments, the sensational deaths of a high-ranking employee of the Presidential Administration and a top manager of one of the capital’s banks were suicides: an Administration employee got out of his official car and shot himself in the temple (four times ), and the top manager smashed his head on a stone, after which he hanged himself in the forest.”

And so I looked into the water. Less than two weeks have passed since the tragic suicide of VTB top manager Oleg Zhukovsky (tied his hands and feet and drowned himself in the pool, having previously destroyed the house), as a new misfortune. Another top manager of the same bank, Alexander Funin, was found with a bullet in his temple. This time it was an accident.

Here let me make a digression and tell you a detective story. The right plot, in the style of Agatha Christie or any writer writing in a society where there is law and order, and where detective fiction as a genre is a story about a detective eliminating a temporary disturbance in the universe.

A top manager of a state-owned bank is found dead. There is a note with him. There is no other evidence. Then the second manager dies. The evidence again points to natural death. And only Sherlock Holmes determines by the subtlest signs that the deaths are not accidental. Holmes is under pressure. They are trying to hush up the matter. It becomes clear that the highest officials of the state are involved in the case. That our managers laundered election money. Or they drove billions personally for the president. Sherlock Holmes fights against the KGB, CIA, Mossad, MI6, NATO's Joint Chiefs of Staff - and, of course, wins.

But the wrong detective is ours.

Vakhlaks from the gateway enter the dacha of a rich man. “Where is the money?” There is little money. A man is tortured, his heart cannot stand it, he is thrown into the pool and left. The police are too lazy to bother. “Suicide,” says the police.

Frankly speaking, among the many versions of the death of bankers, the most implausible seem to be those in which their death is at least somehow connected with the top. If she had been tied up, they would have done it smarter.

Here - in both cases - there are all signs of the wildest unprofessionalism; it smells like a gateway here, not the Kremlin. Here is a total collapse of the law enforcement system, not even a collapse, but a complete cancerous degeneration. People are busy: property is divided, Natasha Morar is not allowed into Russia - where can one be distracted by some top managers or, say, a girl killed by a maniac. The stump is clear - the girl herself froze, and the top manager tied his own hands.

“What about your colleagues at VTB?” – you ask. And colleagues at VTB don’t want any noise. This is a very important circumstance. Before our eyes, we see that two state structures, publicly, before everyone’s eyes, violate all divine and human laws. Some don’t want to bother and investigate, others are so devoid of a basic sense of community that they don’t care: someone killed a colleague - and that’s okay.

And what will you achieve with an investigation? Well, the cops will start investigating. So again, they will come to the bank and not look for murderers, but extort bribes!

“What about the vertical of power?” – you ask. This is a very important question.

The fact is that there are two types of country governance. One is through the law. This is when a noisy murder happens and the police are investigating who killed it. The other is through personal will. This is when there is a noisy murder, and the dictator calls the minister of police onto the carpet and yells: “Where is the murderer?”

And now it turns out that there is no law or personal will in the country.

Vladimir Vladimirovich is not interested in these petty crimes. Neither the bankers shot dead, nor the chaos in Ingushetia.

Now, if the governor does not get 70% for United Russia in the elections, he will be fired. And if the Minister of Internal Affairs, without blinking an eye, approves of “suicide,” so be it.

Meanwhile, the deaths of Zhukovsky and Funin can, without exaggeration, be considered harbingers of a monstrous crime wave, which, apparently, will surpass in scale the wave of the early 90s.

There will be two reasons for this wave. The first one is very simple. A complete reluctance not only to investigate, but even to register significant murders means a green light for all Russian bandits.

The second is that the nationalization of the Vladimir Putin era, abundant oil money and chaos have entrenched a huge number of thieves and bosses in state-owned companies. For now, this whole public sits quite quietly, treating representatives of the vertical of power in their hacienda, arranging for them drinking parties in brothels and prayer services in churches. But after March, when everyone begins to share power, the shooting will begin.

And the security officers are in vain in thinking that they will shoot. Security officers only know how to shoot in the back of the head.

In Russia, only bandits have always truly been able to shoot.